YOUR Chris Moyles-related piece on radio broadcasting in the North East (Thursday, July 12) was entertaining, but just a tad mistaken.

Under the heading “Who were the first voices of radio in the North East?”, you identify Don Dwyer whose voice opened Metro Radio in 1974. Alongside this, you say, correctly, that BBC Radio Newcastle had gone on air four years earlier.

At the risk of being accused of blowing my own trumpet, I shall do exactly that. The first voices on Radio Newcastle were those of presenter Fay Watson and myself as newsreader, thus beating Don Dwyer by quite some margin.

Before BBC Local Radio, listeners in the region were served by the long-running news magazine Voice Of The North and the variety show Wot Cheor Geordie broadcast from Newcastle as part of BBC Regional Radio.

But the first radio station in the region appeared in 1923 when the fledgling British Broadcasting Company opened Station 5NO in Newcastle. Who the first voices were, I do not know. That was before even my time.

SO JA, from Gateshead has switched his question from Royal security and is now asking why should taxpayers money be used for the royals private use. Well, the answer is it is not being used for that purpose. I think JA, is getting a little muddled and confusing the many trips the royals have to make on official business when representing the Queen and country, more so in this her Jubilee year.

Regarding the Chronicle’s Poll of the day theme JA, is beefing on about, on a more positive note, how about asking should taxpayers money be used to fund all this extra security needed for the Olympic Games due to certain mishaps we keep hearing about?

TWO and a half million people out of work the economy in meltdown, crisis in the EU, our brave service men and women being killed and maimed in a disastrous meaningless war in Afghanistan.

The country under 10 feet of water, immigration out of control, third world status education and transport systems and all our stupid childlike politicians can do if fight over reforming the House of Lords.

The House of Lords has worked well for hundreds of years helping to keep the commons in check why so much urgency to change it now.

Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

And how dare Nick Clegg compare himself to Churchill? They have absolutely nothing in common. Churchill saved this country from being taken over by tyrants while Clegg wants to give Britain away lock stock and barrel to a bunch of unelected EU despots.

YET more service cuts now announced including the scrapping of the Regiment of Fusiliers. There’s one section of public spending which seems to ever expand without question, I refer to counter terrorism industry. Just one recent example is the mass mobilisation to deal with a fake cigarette. What an absolute farce. We have rocket launchers, missile systems etc, planted round London not forgetting the Royal Air Force patrolling the skies day and night. And yet what actual acts of terrorism have there been in the last two years? I would suggest barely any. We hear of plenty of people being arrested, we hear of very few people being prosecuted for terrorism. Some would argue it’s because we’re on top of the threat that these acts do not occur, all I would say to that is simply this – if there were hundreds of fanatics willing to be strapped up with suicide bombs no security system in the world could prevent them from imposing massive destruction.

The truth is there have been more people injured by bee stings this past two years yet the anti-terrorism industry seems to have unlimited resources.

It’s about time we re-evaluated the actual terrorist threat and perhaps the government should consider that this state of perceived danger may well suit their purpose but it certainly doesn’t suit the taxpayers’ pocket.